Synopsis
The second part of the story first came immediately: Doctor's death, geographical Baron and fire female companion also insisted together with fish and all kinds of supernatural enemies to fight at the same time, the old Elf prince. In an attempt to recast the crown to awaken the golden army that can destroy everything, he challenged mankind. He first stole part of the crown at the auction, and then killed his father and took the second piece, and the princess who had the last part escaped. When he came out, he happened to meet the group of the baron who was investigating. At this time, the prince chased after him. After a fight, the prince left. Soon he found the headquarters, stole the princess, and stabbed the baron. In the end, the good and the evil were in the golden army. The final battle begins in the sleeping place. After you come and go, the princess uses her own death to stop the prince's plan. When the first
film of "
Hellboy" was released, he was just an unknown red boy. In the second part, he has begun to work hard towards another super hero with distinctive personality in Hollywood. Judging from the early publicity of the second part, he does have this potential and ability, but in the end, the second part is handed over to us The answer seems to be a little different from the imagination, and although the whole film presents a hybrid and stunningly morbid beauty, in other respects, it seems to be a bit off topic. The
blurred, cluttered background sets
the story of the first "Hellboy" The background is inextricably linked with the stories in the Bible, which is also the religious theme in the inexhaustible
architectural details, the dilapidated city, the ancient sewer system, the dark and steaming street corners, the large-scale application of gears and pipes, all are Showing the imprint of the industrial age of the 19th century, but the film takes place in the present, the director mentioned "YOUTUBE", which made all the possibility of the background of the Void Architecture era come to nothing. A detachment from reality and fantasy, a mix of contemporary and last century The background of the times is presented in front of the audience.
Most audiences will not delve into the source of these set contents, but they will unconsciously pay attention to the signs of these times, and make subconscious judgments and comparisons, so that the audience will enter an uncertain self-contradictory constant speculation and overthrow. among cycle, and these viewing experience for movie conveys the mood is no profit, he would delay information transmission efficiency, reduce the quantity and quality receive information.
tasted figures digging
the first section of the protagonist is obviously Hellboy himself, in the second half of the film, he had a fierce struggle and choice between the rational and peaceful concept of human beings and his bloody killing instinct, and finally gave up his demonic nature and chose to use love to repay the kindness of human beings. .
the second part, perhaps because adequate funding relationship, the director can spend more ink performance background, set performance, the performance of the interaction between the various protagonists and supporting roles, even to the point of deep excavation want multiple roles, The fleeting love between the murloc and the princess, the brotherhood between the murloc and the baron over a glass of wine, the tragic fate of the elf brothers and sisters, etc. The starting point is good, and the multi-layered characters may enrich the film itself, but The director wanted to express too many things, but he lost his direction.
After the appearance of the new boss with a cloud of smoke, it has been very exciting. After that, his performance has been very mediocre, neither good nor bad, and he can't even see the bright spot. After being born, this has a bit of personality. In the battle of the god of life, his shouting and asking Hellboy to obey the rules is a bit exaggerated. It didn't show that he was so ruthless and rigid before. After everyone said that he was ruthless and rigid, and the audience had just begun to recognize the character of this character, he suddenly uncharacteristically supported the fire girl and the murlocs to save the baron. These sudden and unreasonable changes greatly weakened the sense of the character. The shape of
the game makes it finally become a real air without character. The scene of the fish and the baron drinking, due to the lack of foreshadowing in the front and the echo in the back, although the atmosphere of the single scene is rendered, but the overall lack of presentation. An abrupt sensationalism that lacks behavioral support and emotional motivation.
The love between the murloc and the princess started and ended like lightning. The beginning was abrupt and the end was abrupt. The image of the princess was unusually noble, elegant and indifferent, but after meeting several times, she fell in love with the murloc and made a bold confession. , so its direct out, it is better to put more ambiguous atmosphere of their own experience by the audience, so without jeopardizing the role of image and temperament, but also dug deep connotation role, and will not mold into a vase.
the Prince and The delicate relationship between the princesses was explained from the very beginning, but there was no room to express. The elder brother's feelings for the younger sister were from the very beginning when the younger sister took the initiative to remove the trust of the weapon, to seeing the younger sister take his last step to success and escape. And losing trust, from the hope that my sister can stand on my side to help me fight to the last time when I see success, my sister uses suicide to organize her unexpected loss and sense of condemnation, and the sympathy between brothers and sisters resolves grievances before death. , these were originally a lot of articles to write, but the director once again missed the opportunity, and would rather spend a lot of time on the stupid, useless and not cool show of the protagonist, rather than focus on these interesting points the multi-mining complex in human nature.
this time, the protagonist does not seem to concentrate on a world like that leads to destruction, every appearance is lighter, cool, and in the audience look forward to when the protagonist to have a bright future, and However, he still used primitive and cumbersome fighting methods to solve problems. After one battle after another, the red-skinned demon still didn't make much progress. He still played with those tricks, played cool, and still couldn't come up with new ideas. The thing always makes the audience's appetite very high, thinking that it will do something to pull the wind, but the result is only a jump, a punch, and a few irrelevant words, which is really depressing.
Weird morbid beauty
As the director of "Pan's Labyrinth", Guillermo del Toro brought his alternative understanding of beauty into full play this time. Pipes, gears, to various creatures in the fantasy world, from the elves' strange faces, elegant manners, to the stunning twisted shape of the angel of death, the director's alternative description of beauty is amazing, but for the film itself, these The hybrid elements make the film a little too saturated, and a simple story has to carry so many ideas and presentations from the director, which makes the film's performance a little unbalanced and becomes a personal show of the director's wishful thinking.
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